Giovanni Martinelli was an Italian

Italy

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, Baroque

Baroque

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 era painter

Painting

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 active mainly in Florence

Florence

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He was born in Montevarchi, Arezzo

Arezzo

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; but by 1621-23, moved to Florence and begins training with Jacopo Ligozzi

Jacopo Ligozzi

Jacopo Ligozzi was an Italian painter, illustrator, designer, and miniaturist of the late Renaissance and early Mannerist styles.-Biography:...

. He appears to have traveled over the next decades, but returned to Florence in 1636 to enroll in the Accademia del Disegno, and became a member in 1637.

He painted a Miracle of the Mule (1632) for the church of San Francesco in Pescia

Pescia

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; it adheres to the model of Lodovico Cigoli’s painting of the same subject. He shows a variety of eclectic influences. By 1638, he had frescoed four Allegories for the Certosa del Galluzzo, near Florence

Sources

• Grove Art encyclopedia entry